What the hell is wrong with this county? Holy crap.

Applebees doesn’t have strippers where you live...?

To put the$25 per diem into perspective the NCAA allows for a $36 per diem

At this point, I’ve become cynical enough to expect anything that would lower workers’ wages to be passed by politicians, baseball players or not.

As I said last week, they’re all wannabe Rambos. I’m really coming close to cutting some people out of my life because they won’t stop bleating about “gun grabbers” and how military-grade weapons are totally cool for us to own, because government oppression, man.

Honestly, I don’t think that would change the NRA’s stance at all, either. It might, maybe, finally, embolden some politicians who’ve kowtowed to them for years to say, “Okay, the public outrage on this issue is high enough that the political backlash for me if I don’t support at least some common-sense gun control…

GUNS! GUNS! GUNS! GIVE EVERY HUMAN A GUN! WHAT COULD GO WRONG? HUMANS ARE VERY RELIABLE AND NEVER VIOLENT. IF EVERYONE CARRIES A GUN. PROBLEM SOLVED! WILL JUST HAVE SHOOTOUTS EVERY TIME WE GET PISSED AT EACH OTHER. IT’LL BE THE OLD WEST ALL OVER AGAIN. ROAD RAGE? BANG YOUR DEAD! BUMPED INTO ME? YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!…

I don’t use the word hate lightly. I also try to remember that most people aren’t good or bad, everyone has some humanity, etc, etc.

*extremely cowering voice* I’m a Mets fan.

Please do! This is such a great city, shark girl is only a part of it!

What I always thought was bizarre about Fountain Square is how they razed every historic building on its perimeter. It’s like an elaborate, Beaux Artes fountain was parachuted into the middle of a 70s era office park.

Buffalo, NY!

In my home town it’s this giant wall of medusa roots in the downtown park. This thing is everywhere: prom pictures, wedding pictures, “I went to Shakespeare in the park and got drunk on cheap wine while swatting mosquitos”, etc. I kinda love that it’s an organic visual marker rather than a man-made installation.

Heeeeeeere’s Shark Girl!

It’s even LESS impressive in person!

Portland ME.

So, because bad things happen... we shouldn’t try to stop or diminish their effects?

Except when I buy weed, alcohol or drugs... people don’t worry that I’ll murder 50 people in a crowded public space. The idea that weapons are somehow in the same ballpark as drugs is such an incomprehensibly bad allegation, in my opinion.

Tom/commenters,